What a tour de force, yet the scope of its grandeur and elegance was revealed only when it was lying on its side on a workbench under the bright lights of the repair shop where it is now being restored.
Mr. Munsel remembers going to the mine, where his stepfather worked in the late 1940s, and sleeping under a dusty workbench, waiting for the shift change.
It was distributed at garages and tire dealerships until 1920, when, according to company lore, a co-founder of the guide, André Michelin, noticed stacks of the guides piled up under a garage workbench, and decided that people respected only what they paid for.
Taking shelter in a basement, under a staircase, or under a sturdy piece of furniture such as a workbench further increases chances of survival.
Under the house there was a half-basement, a low room fitted with a workbench and storage shelves, which one entered through a trapdoor; it was not possible to stand upright.
Her garage workshop, where she had a workbench and a table saw, would vanish.
Power tools, a workbench, wooden storage crates for rockets, and mattresses littered a cavernous hall.
On a workbench lies the limb of a frame, awaiting urgent surgery.
"Inventors who worked at a workbench or in a garage are now online," he said.
